Hi, welcome to the ehealth forum and I am glad to help you.
You seem to be suffering from a myriad of symptoms on and off for the past 18 months including dry cough, sore throat,headache, external ear pain, swelling in neck and jaw, night tremors, palpitations etc.You have also made a mention of similar symptoms in your children.
Your symptoms seem to be suggestive of various stages of Lyme disease but you have mentioned testing negative for Lyme.I suggest that you go for systematic evaluation to reach a definitive diagnosis in consultation with your personal physician starting with thorough physical examination, routine blood and urine tests and taking a clue from the results of the same to decide the course of further investigations. It is difficult to suggest definitive diagnosis online.
Hope this helps. Take care.